The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-01
PLEURO-PNEUNONIA.
Montana Ouarantining Progress of I'll
Disease In Chicago.

Montana aluarantining-PrOg of the
Disease In Chicago.
HELENA, MONT, April 30.-Gov. Les
lie will proclaim quarantine ON cattle in
Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Penn
sylvania, Delaware, the District Of Co
lumbia, Virginia, Vermont and Texas.
CHICAGO, April 30.-A local paper
says this morning ..Pleuro-pneumonia,
according to the statistics of the State
Live Stock Commisslo ner, is more prev
alent in Chicago and vicinity than it
ever was before. 1t has been found nee
essary to- quar- antine the district between
the Lake and the Desplanes River. lying
north of 32d street, including the towns
of Lakeview and jefferson and to estab-
lish patrol or watch system to prevent
smuggling of cattle past the squartine
limits. Within the quartined district the
most strigent measures for the stamp
ing out of the plague have been
adopted. The diseased cows have
been slaughtered by hundreds, infected
barns have been disinfected and even de-
stroyed in some cases, since the discov-
cry of the disease last fall. 1t has been
spreading slowly despite these precau-
tiOnary measures. 1t has been an epi-
demic and apparently can only be eradi-
Gated by sacrificing all the cattle that
have been exposed to it. The Live Stock
Commissioners are working under the
new law passed by the Legislature few
weeks ago, which gives the right to
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nounced to be diseased by the State Vet
erinarian. III they had had such powers
last fall, when the plague first made its
appearance, Chairman Pearson says, it
could never have spread through the
city.
Yesterday count by the veterin-
arians engaged showed that $500 cows
were quarantined and that upwards of
1900 had been slaughtered. The num-
Der in quarantine two weeks ago was
lO,25O, the decrease being due entirely to
the slaughtering method in vogue. Two
hundred and seventeen cows were taken
from the swill troughs of the Empire Dis
tillery sheds at one time. driven to the
Archer Avenue stables and killed. This
work is being done under the supervision
of the Veterinary surgeons, who have
unlimited discretionary powers about the
disposition of carcasses. Each animal is
appraised before being slaughtered and
these claims are promptly paid by the
Commissioners. All animals inspected
now are marked with a tag in order to
prevent their removal without per-
mission.
"a good deal of trouble was expert
enced by the veterinarians when they un-
dertook to corral and tag herds that were
running loose ON the prairies in the
Northwestern portion of the city, ON ac-
count of the determined opposition of
the owners of the herds. The latter are
mostly ignorant foreigners and could not
understand that the precautionary meas
ures We're being exercised for their bene-
tit, but armed themselves with rifles and
revolvers and drove the veterinarians off.
The police were finally called upon to
protect the doctors, and the tagging and
inspecting was finally accomplished,
though not until half dozen skulls had
been cracked and as many arrests made.
Chairman Pearson says the present
outbreak of the disease is traceable to
the outbreak in the distillery sheds of
last fall He also believes that it was
brought to Chicago originally from
Geneva, ILL.,, where it made its appear
ance three or four years ago, and came
to Illinois from Maryland and New York
through the indiscriminate shipment of
blooded CATTLE